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Cam Donaldson

@camdonaldson.bsky.social
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Health economist and Emeritus Yunus Chair at Glasgow Caledonian University's Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health. Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Amidst Enlighten Scotland’s ongoing discussions about NHS 2048, Glasgow Caledonian’s Emeritus Yunus Chair, Prof Cam Donaldson, defends current funding arrangements in: Why not! The illusion of social and supplemental health insurance as solutions to NHS funding - Cam Donaldson - Enlighten
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So lovely to be in Canberra in Spring. Here to visit colleagues at Australian National University, but particularly looking forward to presentation based on my new book at 46th Australian Health Economics Society on Thursday link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
👏Well done to GCPH's Mohasin & Jen and co-authors @profrachelbaker.bsky.social, @camdonaldson.bsky.social & Michael Roy on the publication of 'Creating the conditions for meaningful and effective PPIE in community-based public health research' researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Quote: To work well, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) must be a genuine collaboration that values lived experience alongside academic knowledge. 
Ahmed M Et al. (2025
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
3% pa real terms increases in NHS spend is welcome. Many prestigious NHS reviews have called for this. BUT reviews did not factor in deserved pay hikes & highlighted necessity of matched increases for social care, without which NHS gridlock will continue. Still trouble ahead?
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
New book just out reviewing key approaches to funding health and social care based on economic evidence, including analysis of the current state of publicly funded health care and key policy considerations for governments link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Financing Health and Social Care
This book argues that clinical leadership and politicians need to pay more attention to the economic issues underlying health and social care
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A different approach to health inequalities from brilliant colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University’s Yunus Centre: health-inequalities.eu/financing-e-...
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United Kingdom's microcredit as a public health initiative: bridging financial gaps for well-being - Financing e-Guide
Context and problem(s) addressed In the UK, health gaps exist and are widening between the best and worst-off in society. These disparities are influenced by social, economic, and environmental factor...
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Dr Nicola J Irvine @nicolairvine.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
‘Public values, Universal Basic Income (UBI) and health’. Excellent work from @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social team Neil McHugh @camdonaldson.bsky.social @davidbomark.bsky.social Verity Watson, Neil Craig @profrachelbaker.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Trading-off outcomes and policy characteristics of a Universal Basic Income and a Minimum Income Guarantee: Evidence from an exploratory mixed-method preference-based study
What policies should we introduce to tackle the UK's worsening population health trends? From an economic perspective, the concern is with achieving t…
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Never post when angry. But I’m super-middle-class angry! For your amusement, back from wonderful trip to Melbourne, Canberra (bit of work) & Hanoi. 2 days before bags made Australia and now missing in Aberdeen, despite 3hr layovers at common denominator - Heathrow! 3rd runway? They cannae staff 2!
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year from Hanoi xx
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Paying our respects to Uncle Ho at his Mausoleum in Hanoi
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What can you say about Hanoi? Beautiful, strange & vibrant all come to mind, and that’s just day 1! Check out Train St, where the locals and tourists sit in cafes to watch the train go by.
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Just popped into this place on our way home from Australian National University!
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In the pink after amazing Symposium on Valuing Life & Health with these folks, hosted by health economics and philosophy colleagues at Australian National University. John Brooke called me crazy. Such an honour ⁦‪@YunusCentreGCU‬⁩
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited about being in Melbourne to complete our personal grand slam of tennis Majors.
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Reviews of NHS & social care launched in UK. Two questions:1) why separate when having parallel conversations about integrated care?2) why are expert reviews undertaken by Lancet/LSE, BMJ and Darzi not enacted? Blueprint needed. TEASER: I think I have answers. Watch this space over next month or 2
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Heading to my other job at Australian National University this Thursday. Settling in with tennis in Melbourne first. Then interesting workshop on Valuing Life & Health for Public Policy with ANU philosophers & health economists & great friends from Newcastle University and Jan Abel Olsen from Tromso
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Amazing performance last night at Aberdeen’s P&J Arena by Paul Heaton @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social Last saw him at York Arts Centre in 1984 (I think!). Rianne Downey & band brilliant too as were the Zutons, last seen by us at Loch Lomond in 2005 (we think!).
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Amazing performance last night at Aberdeen’s P&J Arena by Paul Heaton @paulheatonsolo.bsky.com Last saw him at York Arts Centre in 1984 (I think!). Rianne Downey & band brilliant too as were the Zutons, last seen by us at Loch Lomond in 2005 (we think!).
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Responses to Audit Scotland report claim (unspecified) reforms to NHS in Scotland are urgent. Reminiscent of UK Govt claims. ‘Reform’ - great word for politicians to use in avoiding requirement for more funding. Focus on primary care & prevention are good, but won’t overcome persistent neglect.
bbc.co.uk
Scottish NHS reform 'urgently needed' - watchdog
Audit Scotland says decisions may needed about whether some services can be provided by the NHS.
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Update. Bloody freezin’!
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Another ‘retirement weekend’ starts today,yes Thursday! Off to Braemar (yes, the coldest town in Britain!) and then Pitlochry, to see Sound of Music at its delightful theatre. Then back to Aberdeen via Glamis Xmas market. It’s a birthday treat. There’s a Beatles song with the number in the title!
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Cam Donaldson @camdonaldson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thanks all for wonderful welcomes to Bluesky. I will soon start messaging, mostly about health economics and health policy. I had no issues on X in that regard. It was mainly the rest of the toxicity around it that bugged me. Looking forward to critically-constructive chats.
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